Questions

Group #3: Josefina, Lucia, Paula
Group #7:Magdalena, Santiago, Alfredo

Prehistory


http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/sciences/lifescience/PhysicalAnthropology/PrehistoricTimes/PrehistoricTimes.htm
  • The Antiquity of Man
  • The Prehistoric and the Historic Age
  • How we learn about Prehistoric Man
  • The Paleolithic; The Neolithic; The Age of Metals
  • The Origin of the Use of Fire
  • The Domestication of Animals and Plants
  • The Formation of Language; The Invention of Writing
  • The Great Bequest

Interview

Eudald Carbonell is a Spanish archaeologist, anthropologist and paleontologist.
At the beginning of the interview (in Spanish) he says he specializes in finding psychological and technical standards which articulate what has been a unique feature of humans: the ability to make tools. And also how the tools resocialize human beings.
here is the interview with some sentences highlighted.http://www.allaboutscience.org/evolution-of-man.htm

Eudald Carbonell (This is a summary of the interview)
-Specializes on the techniques that articulate our condition on human evolution à make tools. If we don´t make tools, we won’t be humans.
Eudald Carbonell has discovered on species, the first sign of cannibalism and cadaver. The archeological records are very fragmented because of the thing that are relation with the way that the things were accumulated. In a cave there are moments of reactivation and moments were everything is stop. That´s why he just have a fragmented vision of 1.000.000 years before.
The human technology is measured on the “Pleistocene” à two million years – now

-complexion of the technology
1. When the hominids make tool without a design of the form and without symmetry.
2. The hominid with the most developed brain à he created tool with symmetry.
3. The Homo erectus created on little tools.
4. The Homo sapiens crated harpoons.
(1to 4 technological human evolution)
-there isn´t any kind of animal that pass intraspecific information.
-every discover (like fire) makes that the humans seen more humans.
-the techniques allow us to relate with our environment in a different way.
-we make social relations
-has developed the conscience of the time
-Virtual space à human
-physical space à monkey

(Josefina, Paula, Lucía)

Stone Age


**http://www.paleodirect.com/primman1.htm**

This link talks a little bit about the different theories of the man evolution an the different forms that the man had been taking during the prehistory time :
  • Homo habilis
  • Homo erectus
  • Homo sapiens
  • Homo sapiens sapiens

Human Evolution


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_evolution

  • Genus Homo
  • Use of tools
  • Models of human evolution
  • Comparative table of homo species
  • Adult eight
  • Adult mass
  • Cranial capacity

Paleolithic


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolithic

  • Paleolithic (general description)
  • Chronology
  • Humans ways of life (technology)

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0837341.html
  • Introduction of the paliolithic period
  • The lower paliolithic period
  • The middle paliolithic period
  • The upper paliolithic period
  • Encyclopedia articles on: Human evolution (All about humans) hal-small.gif

Neolithic

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic
  • Neolithic (general description)
  • Techonology

http://www.worldmuseumofman.org/neolithic1.htm
  • humans after the ice age
  • the first uses of the ceramic

The age of metals


http://www.historiasiglo20.org/prehistory/index.htm

  • Inventions
  • The first cities
  • Megalithic monuments

http://www.primitiveways.com/hal-small.gif

These links are about the evolution of tools related with the evolution of the man and about how the tools could be clasificated.

These link especifies in the kinds of weapons and tools that are used by the autralians, I think is important because they are very specific in relation with the conditions of their life.


http://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/25/science/human-ancestors-earliest-tools-found-in-africa.html?scp=19&sq=human%20tools&st=cse&pagewanted=allThis link is an article which is about human ancestors and the tools. In my opinion is very useful and easy to understand.

After reading http://www.historiasiglo20.org/prehistory/index.htm I wondered if the megalithic monuments had any relation with their culture or religion
After reading http://www.allaboutscience.org/evolution-of-man.htm I wondered how the tools helped the humans to be more sociable each other
After reading http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/sciences/lifescience/PhysicalAnthropology/PrehistoricTimes/PrehistoricTimes.htm I wondered in wich of the ages had happened the biggest change of the using of tools .